Warning - lots of Yarn PRon and photos below!

My uncle Harry sadly had a heart attack a few weeks ago while flying from Florida to his home in California. They actually had to divert the plane in Houston to take him to a hospital. Luckily he's a lot better now and is at home. The amazing ladies at Heartmade Blessings helped me make this comfortghan for him. I wasn't sure about the two different colours of burgundy but I came to think of it as helping his heart pump out old blood and bring in new blood. I'm sure he'll feel better once he's wrapped up in it and feeling everyone's love and prayers.

I've been knitting diligently on my Woodland Shawl. Every time I lay it down to take a picture, Clancy jumps on it - she definitely has a thing for alpaca. Remember Bob The Alpaca? She almost licked him bald!

I was a mean mommy and locked her out of the room long enough to take these pictures

There is a lot of knitting left to do here, but I'm really enjoying it. I have to say that Alpaca is my most favourite yarn to knit with in the entire universe.

Jennifer tempted me this afternoon with an IM...."the Noro is in".

I booted it down to the store and not only was the lovely Noro there, Jennifer was too!

I give you: total eye candy. You may want to sit down before looking at these pictures - it will make you weak in the knees.

There is not doubt this time - this followed me home. It's colourway S40 in dyelot B. Since my initials are SB and I'm 40-ish, I decided that it was a sign from the gods that it should be mine (that's my story and I'm sticking to it).

My impression so far is that it is definitely a single yarn. It plies back on itself when you are working with it, which can be a tad annoying. I am actually crocheting a sample which will stay at the store for a while so that I can have my other shawl (which was on loan to them) back. I wouldn't recommend working from the centre of the ball. I wound mine from the outside on my ball winder and didn't have any issues with knots or thick/thin. On the whole, it was pretty even for a Noro yarn. I did notice that it tended to bias quite a bit when I was crocheting the sample. I'm hoping some weight on it will straighten it out.

I'm heading off to Ancaster tomorrow for our annual Toronto Hookups Crochet Guild retreat. A wonderful weekend of Wine Women and Wool is ahead of me. I've already packed my craft bag three times (wine and Cheetos are already packed). I guess I'd better think about the clothes part next.

PS Clancy is sulking now that she's allowed back in the room